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John Demos's interdisciplinary analysis of witchcraft in early New England

The work of literature examined within this analytical book review is entitled Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. It is written by John Demos who is a professor of history at Brandeis University.

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Workplace conflict resolution through face-to-face communication

I once was stationed with a company in which the department in which I worked was exceedingly small and consisted of me and one other individual who was my immediate superior.

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Developing a personal leadership toolbox for educational settings

One of the most insightful things that I ever read about leadership and leading a group of people, is that "leadership is less about your needs, and more about the needs of the people and the organization you are leading" (wsj, 2014).

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How the Mini-Mental State Examination assesses memory encoding

The card trick shown on page 265 in Coon and Mitterer (2013) provides a demonstration of how human memory works. An individual is first presented with six face cards from a deck of cards and told to focus on a single card of their choice, so that the person will be able to remember it later.

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Restorative justice conferences versus court processing in the RISE study

The purpose of this article was to show that restorative justice is significantly more satisfying as compared to courts for both offenders and victims. This was achieved with a randomized experimental design known as Reintergrative Shaming Experiments RISE.

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Attribution theory and emotional intelligence in organizational behavior

Attribution theory is a theory that focuses on creating an understanding of the ways in which people interpret events and the relationship of the events to their thinking and behaviors. The theory was proposed by Heider (1958), Weiner (1972 and 1986), and Weiner (1074).

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Differences between formal and informal groups and employee motivation

There are significant differences in the norms, values, strategy and structure of formal vs. informal groups across the communication, strategic planning and problem-solving dimensions of how each type operates.

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Florence Nightingale and the development of modern nursing theory

Florence Nightingale (d.1910), founder of modern nursing is born. Florence Nightingale is widely credited for developing what has been called an 'environmental' theory of nursing.

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Donella Meadows' leverage points and system intervention theory

Leverage points are areas within a system where small changes can generate seismic, system-wide effects.

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Cognitive dissonance, role overload, and strategic competition in organizations

Provide an example of Cognitive dissonance in the workplace? One example of a situation in which Cognitive dissonance might occur in the workplace could be found at Disney theme parks. Disney's hires a number of "actors" to wear costumes and play different roles at the park.

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